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Jeremiah received Gift of the prophecy (Jeremiah, I, 4 10), 1956, Marc Chagall Medium: etching,paper

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If any man cannot grasp this matter, let him be idle and the matter will grasp him. 

—HENRY SUSO We need to acknowledge that it is not our discriminating and reflexive self-consciousness that makes us human, but rather the ability to move beyond this self-consciousness to engagement and beholding, the irruption of our core silence into everyday life. Robert Bringhurst notes, “If you divide the world into them and us, and history into ours and theirs, or if you think of history as something only you and your affiliates can possess, then no matter what you know, no matter how noble your intentions, you have taken one step toward the destruction of the world.” Life really does hang in the balance in every moment. It hovers horizontally between the past, which cannot be changed, and the future, which is refulgent with potential but fraught with our projections. It is poised vertically between self-conscious rationality, which is the source of these projections, and deep silence, where we touch reality directly. We need to recover the ability to live at the intersection: in the present moment, energized by the upwelling from deep silence where, in Christian terms, our shared nature with God becomes manifest.

Silence: A User’s Guide by Maggie Ross

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Denys Val Baker (editor) - Phantom Lovers - William Kimber - 1984

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The myth of the Fall reminds us that our control of the knowledge of good and evil is only partial. If we take a dualistic view of evil, if we make evil into a kind of god set in opposition to God, a god that we can control or defeat or do battle against, then we not only compound our futile grasping at knowledge that is beyond our creatureliness by choosing to be trapped in this false dialectic, but we also create a hierarchy in which evil must be assigned to material creation. Even more insidious is that we end by pitting our willfulness against the willfulness we perceive as evil. What is evil in the mystery of God we can never know. We can only be wounded by it as we choose it, do it, and suffer from it, and even then we must not presume that we know what is and what is not evil from God's perspective.

Maggie Ross, Pillars of Flame: Power, Priesthood, and Spiritual Maturity

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“In the resurrection, the wounds of Christ do not disappear; they are glorified. Only the devil appearing as Christ has no wounds, being too vain to bear them.”

~Maggie Ross

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“She showed me that solitude is complete reliance of self-emptying Mercy, that solitude is always a stranger and sojourner, homeless, a bag lady.“

Maggie Ross: “Seasons of Life and Death- A Wilderness Memoir”

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